A friend of mine asked me if I could provide visuals for his DJ mixes and I stumbled upon Magic Music Visuals this morning. After watching all the tutorial videos, I managed to come up with a brave attempt at making something that might work based on a classic jungle tune:

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I then turned my attention to something more relevant to my friends mixing:

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I was hoping that the video would have a random selection of scenes from the ones I selected but it would appear that they are being selected in order. I'm not sure if there was a preference I should have changed but I'm quite pleased with the result.

In the end I decided to redo my longer Kinshasa-Lagos video and tweak some of the scenes. After reading the relevant documentation, I know know that there is no random scene selection when you export a video to mp4. Instead I just made a playlist that covered the entire 54 mins of audio that I had. I also added some introductory signage. It now looks a bit more like a proper film.

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I think I should probably stick to shorter videos while I'm trying to work out how Magic works. It took over 5 hours to render the video this time! Since I'm only uploading this to youtube anyway, does anyone think it is better to use a lower resolution when exporting to mp4? Does it matter?